Lilly stops mid-stage Alzheimer's drug study
Eli Lilly and Co. said Thursday that it stopped a mid-stage clinical trial of an experimental Alzheimer's disease drug because of potential side ...
Sunscreen slows skin aging, if used often enough
If worry about skin cancer doesn't make you slather on sunscreen, maybe vanity will: New research provides some of the strongest evidence to date that ...
Amtrak unveils locomotives to replace aging fleet
Amtrak has unveiled at a plant in California the first of 70 new locomotives, marking what the national passenger railroad service said it hopes will ...
Baxter drug fails to slow Alzheimer's in big study
Baxter International Inc. says that a blood product it was testing failed to slow mental decline or to preserve physical function in a major study of ...
US suicide rate rose sharply among middle-aged
The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans climbed a startling 28 percent in a decade, a period that included the recession and the mortgage crisis, ...
Long-term care in aging US: Not for me, poll says
We're in denial: Americans underestimate their chances of needing long-term care as they get older — and are taking few steps to get ready. A new poll ...
Campbell ends touring career, to release new album
Glen Campbell's Alzheimer's disease has progressed too far to allow him to continue touring. Instead, he'll spend his 77th birthday on Monday in ...
APNewsBreak: Upper-income seniors' Medicare hike
President Barack Obama's plan to raise Medicare premiums for upper-income seniors would create five new income brackets to squeeze more revenue for ...
Budget: cover uninsured, trim Medicare, tax cigs
President Barack Obama's new budget offers Medicare cuts to entice Republicans into tax negotiations, while plowing ahead to cover the uninsured next ...
Study: Dementia tops cancer, heart disease in cost
Cancer and heart disease are bigger killers, but Alzheimer's is the most expensive malady in the U.S., costing families and society $157 billion to ...
Obama proposes $100M for brain mapping project
President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to ...
Help shrinks as poverty spikes in the US
Antonio Hammond is the $18,000 man. He's a success story for Catholic Charities of Baltimore, one of a multitude of organizations trying to haul ...
Sheriff proposes ankle monitors for some seniors
A northern Utah sheriff's office is floating a unique and unproven idea for keeping seniors with Alzheimer's disease and dementia safe: Give them ...
Report: 1 in 3 seniors dies with, not of, dementia
A staggering 1 in 3 seniors dies with Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia, says a new report that highlights the impact the mind-destroying ...
Charm offensive produces no breakthroughs
Over dinner at a swank hotel a few blocks from the White House, Republican senators wanted to know if President Barack Obama would support a gradual ...
Your chances of dying by 2023? Test offers a clue
Want to know your chances of dying in the next 10 years? Here are some bad signs: getting winded walking several blocks, smoking, and having trouble ...
FDA panel sees risk in long-used osteoporosis drug
A panel of federal health experts says a long-established bone strengthening drug should no longer be used by women because there is little evidence ...
CEO: Risks key for Merck to succeed, help patients
Merck & Co. CEO Kenneth C. Frazier is convinced nearly everyone, from patients to long-term investors, wants the world's third-largest drugmaker to ...
Study questions kidney cancer treatment in elderly
In a stunning example of when treatment might be worse than the disease, a large review of Medicare records finds that older people with small kidney ...
Pope shows lifetime jobs aren't always for life
The world seems surprised that an 85-year-old globe-trotting pope who just started tweeting wants to resign, but should it be? Maybe what should be ...
No one fix to slow hospital readmission epidemic
More than 1 million Americans wind up back in the hospital only weeks after they left for reasons that could have been prevented — a revolving door ...
Assisted suicide on legal agenda in several states
A push for the legalization of physician-assisted suicide is under way in a half-dozen states where proponents say they see strong support for ...
Generic competition, charges cut Merck Q4 profit
Merck & Co.'s fourth-quarter profit fell 7 percent because of hits from generic competition and one-time charges, and the company pushed back plans ...
Aging America: Elder abuse, use of shelters up
She raises her hands to her snow-white hair in a gesture of frustrated bewilderment, then slowly lowers them to cover eyes filling with tears.
Changing family dynamic may lead to tax relief
Members of the sandwich generation — caught between supporting elderly parents whose assets are nearly exhausted and adult children without jobs — ...
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